Bargain of the Week
One of the problems with my current car (a 1992, 150k mile Mercedes 190E) is that the radio won’t pick up FM, which renders all the various FM transmitters I have for iPods useless. I’ve been looking for a cassette adapter for a little while and on Saturday I saw one in Tesco for £6.97. Considering Maplin in Worcester didn’t seem to sell them and PC World sell them for a ludicrous £14.99, the Tesco price seemed like a great deal.
However, I’ve just done a quick search on Google Product Search (sidenote: which is a terrible name compared to its previous name, Froogle) and I apparently could have got one for 79p. Damn.
If I’d known you were in need of one I could have brought mine with me, you could have had that for free!
Does the Tesco device work satisfactorily?
Hello! Did you ask any of the staff in Maplin to help you? Type QJ50 into the search box on the maplin website
…we’ve certainly got them in the Worcester branch too. Give us a call!
I’ve found :
a) FM ones work acceptably well…
b) Tape ones suck. There is too much hiss and crap.
You should just shell out for another radio; you could probably get one with a line in feed for not.very.much
I never did have a problem with the tape adapter in the Merc, it was very acceptable. Unfortunately my current car (Seat Toledo) does not have a tape player, I bought a RoadTrip so I can charge up my iPhone and also broadcast on FM, but it’s been a bit mixed so far. There’s always a hiss in the background and the radio doesn’t seem to be able to hold onto the signal very well. I had the same situation previously in my Lupo with an iTrip, so I suspect it’s a general problem with VW Group radios. The radio in my Mini was great – there almost never any interference on that. So I think perhaps radio upgrade might be on the cards…